[PATCH] Factor out pg_malloc and friends into port code

2013-01-02 10:12 keltezéssel, Magnus Hagander írta:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at 
> <mailto:zb@cybertec.at>> wrote:
>
>     2013-01-02 01:24 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
>
>         Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at <mailto:zb@cybertec.at>> writes:
>
>             2013-01-01 17:18 keltezéssel, Magnus Hagander írta:
>
>                 That way we can get around the whole need for changing memory allocation
>                 across all the
>                 frontends, no? Like the attached.
>
>             Sure it's simpler but then the consistent look of the code is lost.
>             What about the other patch to unify pg_malloc and friends?
>             Basically all client code boils down to
>                   fprintf(stderr, ...)
>             in different disguise in their error reporting, so that patch can
>             also be simplified but it seems that the atexit() - either explicitly
>             or hidden behind InitPostgresFrontend() - cannot be avoided.
>
>         Meh.  I find it seriously wrongheaded that something as minor as an
>         escape_quotes() function should get to dictate both malloc wrappers
>         and error recovery handling throughout every program that might use it.
>
>
>     Actually, the unification of pg_malloc and friends wasn't dictated
>     by this little code, it was just that pg_basebackup doesn't provide
>     a pg_malloc implementation (only pg_malloc0) that is used by
>     initdb's escape_quotes() function. Then I noticed how wide these
>     almost identical functions have spread into client apps already.
>
>     I would say this unification patch is completely orthogonal to
>     the patch in $SUBJECT. I will post it in a different thread if it's
>     wanted at all. The extra atexit() handler is not needed if a simple
>     fprintf(stderr, ...) error reporting is enough in all clients.
>     As far as I saw, all clients do exactly this but some of them hide
>     this behind #define's.
>
>
> Please do keep that one separate - let's avoid unnecessary feature-creep, whether it's 
> good or bad features.

The patch is attached. There is no extra atexit() code in this one.

I did this over my pg_basebackup patch, there are two chunks
that gets rejected if applied without it: one in initdb.c, the other is
in src/port/Makefile. It's because the modified codes are too close
to each other.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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